Easy Smarties Cookies
Smarties Cookies are a fun and colourful sweet treat! Also known as Smarties Biscuits or Dotty Cookies, these cookies only use 5 ingredients!
Prep Time5 minutes mins
Cook Time15 minutes mins
Total Time20 minutes mins
Course: Biscuit, Cookie
Cuisine: Western
Keyword: dotti cookies, smarties biscuits, smarties cookies
Servings: 24
Calories: 158kcal
2 Baking Trays
2 Silicon Baking Mats
1 Large mixing bowl
1 Electric beaters
1 Mini Cookie Scoop
- 250 grams/2 sticks butter chopped into small pieces. Note 1
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence Note 2
- 1 cup icing sugar sifted, Note 3
- 2 cups plain flour sifted
- ½ cup smarties Note 4
Preheat oven: to 180°C / 350-375°F / Gas Mark 4-5.
Prepare trays: line 2 baking trays with silicon baking mats.
Cream butter: add butter to a large mixing bowl. Use electric beaters to beat till soft and creamy. Add vanilla essence and beat till combined.
Add sugar: add sifted icing sugar and continue to use beaters to mix in, then add sifted flour and beat till combined.
Cookie dough: use a spatula or your hands, to knead the mixture till soft and firm.
Portion: use a mini cookie scoop to portion the biscuit mixture across the baking trays, with 12 cookies per tray. Use 2 finger tips to push the cookies down slightly so they flatten and then add 4 smarties to the top of each cookie. Press these gently and they will stick as they cook.
Bake: place the baking trays into the oven for 12 to 15 mins.
Remove and cool: allow to cool slightly, then use an oven mit and flat utenstil to transfer cookies onto wire rack to cool. Store in an air tight container.
- Note 1 - Butter: chopping the butter into smaller pieces means that it will be easier to work with. The alternative is the beaters being stuck into 1 large block of butter. Everywhere from Walmart to Safeway, Tesco, Aldi, Coles and Woolies will sell this. In Australia a standard block is 250 grams, in the USA and Canada you will be able to use 2 x sticks of butter (which is 226.6grams, this small different won't matter, so if you are a USA or Canadian reader be confident that 2 x standard sticks of butter will be fine to use, ie not 2 sticks plus a little bit more).
- Note 2 - Vanilla extract: you can use the cheaper vanilla extract without a second thought.
- Note 3 Icing sugar: this is soft powdered sugar, also known as confectioner's sugar. It is not granulated like white or caster sugar.
- Note 4 - Smarties: You can aim for approximately 4 smarties per cookie. As this is too hard to know from the outset (the amount of smarties in a packet), I recommend buying a share packet as opposed to a small box to ensure you have enough. I use the family size 340 gram packet and you only need about half that, so 120 grams will do the trick! There is also a smaller 140gram share packet available which will work.
Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 16g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 71mg | Potassium: 14mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 272IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 10mg | Iron: 1mg